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Sabalenka-Rybakina! Sinner-Medvedev!
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Daniil Medvedev, in resurgent form this year after a fairly stinky 2025, hands #1 Carlos Alcaraz his first loss of the season, 6-3, 7-6(3).
Indian Wells finals now set:
Sabalenka-Rybakina
Medvedev-Sinner
Jannik Sinner beats Joao Fonseca 7-6(6), 7-6(4) in a match of seriously super duper quality that lived up to the hype.
Big showcase for Fonseca after a slow start to this season.
Sinner will get Learner Tien in the Indian Wells quarterfinals on Thursday.
Jannik Sinner beats Joao Fonseca 7-6(6), 7-6(4) in a match of seriously super duper quality that lived up to the hype.
Big showcase for Fonseca after a slow start to this season.
Sinner will get Learner Tien in the Indian Wells quarterfinal.
Another big win for Learner Tien, reaching the ATP-WTA 1000 Indian Wells quarterfinals by beating Davidovich Fokina in a third set tiebreak, saving two match points.
Tien awaits winner of Fonseca-Sinner.
“Let this game go; we’ll start the third set serving,” coach Mariano Puerta tells his player Alejandro Davidovich Fokina.
Tien then swiftly held at love.
This is normal coaching, but if anyone could have placed a bet in that instant, hoo boy.
Casual 103 mph forehand winner by Learner Tien…
There's a ton of fascinating, stakes-raising angles to Aryna Sabalenka and Naomi Osaka's first match in more than seven(!) years, happening tomorrow at Indian Wells.
Read at Bounces, including a book excerpt on their 2018 U.S. Open classic:
www.benrothenberg.com/p/aryna-saba...
There's a ton of fascinating, stakes-raising angles to Aryna Sabalenka and Naomi Osaka's first match in more than seven(!) years, happening tomorrow at Indian Wells.
Read at Bounces, including a book excerpt on their 2018 U.S. Open classic:
www.benrothenberg.com/p/aryna-saba...
Enjoyed this by @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social on Amanda Anisimova finding a touchstone in Alysa Liu this year.
forty-deuce.ghost.io/amanda-anisi...
A mid-match injury retirement for Coco Gauff, only the second time in her career (Cincinnati 2022). Looked like a left forearm injury.
Alex Eala advances 6-2, 2-0, and has some very effusive words for International Women's Day in her on court interview.
Oh my. Anne White rocking both 80’s extremes - big hat big print pose, and girl in teen mag true life story.
I survived this era with an orange post-punk mohican and a lot of dub reggae and Afrobeat
cotton candy > mustard
this has been your Jannik Sinner 2026 fashion update
Pantyhose on the beach!!! 💀
Had a lot of fun turning back the pages of time, literally, to what women’s tennis wanted itself to look like in the 1980s.
We talk about the tennis calendar all the time; this time it’s different.
Free for all to read at Bounces, but please subscribe!
www.benrothenberg.com/p/the-women-...
Happy to have some good news to share about the war in the Middle East, at least through the very narrow lens of tennis players and personnel finding recent success in escaping from the UAE amid the conflict.
Read at Bounces:
www.benrothenberg.com/p/daniil-med...
Update today from the ATP:
After a Challenger was aborted in UAE amid war, players were furious at ATP's response.
"The negligence from ATP is crazy," a player in Fujairah told Bounces.
Plus, an update on how Russian singles stars escaped Dubai while doubles players couldn't:
www.benrothenberg.com/p/tennis-ira...
Very glad to hear!!
Always glad when anyone can still find and read the book, I remain proud of it.☺️
I reached out to ATP-WTA 500 Washington tournament owner Mark Ein about this; amazingly, he told me he’d had zero contact from the WTA before today about a new stateside tournament joining his existing week of the calendar.
Still pending, I hear!
After years of absence, a WTA 250 is returning to Memphis, this time to be played on outdoor hard courts. Takes the Cleveland sanction.
Bafflingly, WTA 250 Memphis was put in the same week as ATP-WTA 500 Washington; the week before that would've surely be more logical.
Not yet. Last I’ve heard, all tennis personnel have been waiting for UAE airspace to reopen.
Wrote about the increasingly unignorable collisions between world politics and the tennis tours, this time with players and personnel in Dubai far too close for comfort to the newly exploding situation in Iran.
Read at Bounces:
www.benrothenberg.com/p/iran-war-t...
With her points coming off for not defending her WTA 500 Merida title, next week will be the first week since May 2023 in which Emma Navarro is not the highest-ranked Emma in the WTA rankings.
After a detour through the wilderness, Emma Raducanu reclaims the throne of Top Emma.
Very, very excited to get more of @avarwallace.bsky.social in tennis!
www.nytco.com/press/the-at...
Frances Tiafoe won this tennis match
Will be very interesting to see how it works with a guy who likes to throw spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks. Excellent post by @benrothenberg.bsky.social #tennis
www.benrothenberg.com/p/craig-tile...
Thank you!
